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Language production in a shared task: Cumulative Semantic Interference from self- and other-produced context words.
Renske S Hoedemaker1, Jessica Ernst2, Antje S Meyer1
1Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Acta Psychologica
|December 2, 2016
Summary
This study shows that hearing words from a partner slows down your own word recall, similar to when you say words yourself. This suggests shared conceptual learning happens when listening and speaking.
Area of Science:
- Psycholinguistics
- Cognitive Science
- Language Production
Background:
- Cumulative Semantic Interference (CSI) increases naming latencies for repeated category exemplars.
- Previous research focused on self-produced language effects.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the impact of semantic context from both self-produced and other-produced words on language production.
- To determine if Cumulative Semantic Interference (CSI) occurs in a joint-speaking task.
Main Methods:
- Participants engaged in a joint picture-naming task, alternating turns.
- Measured naming latencies for self-produced and other-produced items.
- Assessed free recall rates for self-produced and other-produced items.
Main Results:
- A within-speaker CSI effect was observed for self-produced items.
- An across-speaker CSI effect was found, with other-produced items slowing naming.
- Recall was higher for self-produced items than other-produced items.
Conclusions:
- Both speaking and listening contribute to conceptual-level implicit learning.
- Across-speaker CSI suggests language processing involves conceptual representations.
- Implicit conceptual learning is distinct from explicit memory recall.
Keywords:
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